Recommend me a book for a 36 year old man that has had the last decade of his work become essentially meaningless, and every day he finds less and less hope.
>>24090466The Metamorphosis. If you don't think it's hilarious then you're being dramatic.Ecclesiastes if you want to function.
>>24090466Gone with the Wind . It's about a Karen complaining about liberals, niggers, and white trash
>>24090466Stop being a bitch by Anonymous.
The World as Will and Representation.The Myth of Sisyphus.
Man And His Symbols, to learn how to reconnect to your meaning instinct
Also looking for a book. I read The Tatar Steppe recently and I think the coldness scared me most, and relating to how hostile Drogo becomes even to the concept of happiness, because he knows he missed his chance at that kind of life.>>24090558Is this actually worth reading? I marathoned a few pages years ago and it was him interpreting the art of various tribal groups or something and using it to support whatever point he was making.
>>24090558>>24090551>>24090508thanks
Cat's Cradle by Kurt VonnegutThe Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilsoncosmic theatrics, sex, drugs, violence, conspiracy, Atlantis stuff
>>24090602is that an ensoChan is Taoism infiltrating Buddhism and hosing everything down with weedkillerTry Chuang Tzu, Huangbo, and Linjihttps://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.htmlhttps://terebess.hu/zen/huangbo.html and https://terebess.hu/zen/Huangpo.pdfhttps://terebess.hu/zen/linji-eng.html and https://ia802906.us.archive.org/15/items/recordoflinjitranslationcommentaryofruthfullersasakithomasyuhokirchner_212_n/Record%20of%20Linji%20Translation%20%26%20Commentary%20of%20Ruth%20Fuller%20Sasaki%20Thomas%20Yuho%20Kirchner.pdf
>>24090466The DhammapadaThe Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
>>24090466Suttree.
>>24090466 Bhagavad-gītā
I have an idea, we write a book for OP, on the meta-physics of unhappiness. it goes like this:reject the concept of happiness; reject the association of calm with unhappinessclaim that happiness is actually pre- or proto-unhappiness in disguisetreat unhapiness as a storm, an energetic system with certain causes and characteristicstreat each sort or kind of unhappiness separately, don't assume that one kind of unhappiness is related to another; they could be entirely separate or unrelated in terms of cause and what sustains themthe storm of unhappiness dissipates when its underlying energetic quality or dynamic is disrupted to the point where the reaction no longer occurs
My diary desu
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>>24090466I find it so weird I'm seven years older than you and surprisingly have more hope. It shall pass.>>24090551These are good suggestions
>>24090558This one too. I read it, it was good.
>>24091032You'll especially be interested in "depressive hedonism" and "market Stalinism"
>>24090466Read book of disquiet if you want to relate to a kindred soul.
Nobody cares, Frank. Fuck off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>24090466>that has had the last decade of his work become essentially meaninglessWhat does this mean?
>>24091083my business was ass fucked by post covid inflation. I was saving for a warehouse for years, and they skyrocketed in price along with everything else. passed on buying a house until a was able to buy a warehouse. passed of 40k houses. I lived in the middle of shitty Indiana to save money. Now it's all become pointless. My business is a shitty job, and a have a warehouse full of machinery bullshit. if I was a real scoundrel I would load of the business on debt and leave it all behind for Budapest.
>>24091032Kys
>>24091130That sucks man. Maybe you can get government subsidies for business purposes
>>24090600The point he was making was that symbols are a universal method of psychological communication. Just keep reading it.
>>24091857What did you take away from the book?
>>24091130>Budapest of all placesYou just want misery, do you?
>>24090508this + everything by that jew golem Houellebecq
>>24091872I was just in Budapest for 3 months and it was awesome. imagine going on the subway and not seeing any negroes. little girls ride alone. every other ice cream or coffee shop has a super model working at the counter. my rent was $600 a month for a 2 bedroom.
>>24093391I can't even imagine having a subway. Or anything that isn't a nightmare. My only store is Walmart. And I have to walk for hours to get there
>>24093397damn, bro. find a way out. write about it.
>>24090466Live like this for a week, you'll die or fix your life
>>24090537only saw the movie as a kid on tv. are you telling me this book was awesome all along but the hollywood jews ruined it?
American Psycho
>>24090466i think Buzzati's Tartare Steppe might answer. It's about a man who never dares to start all over. Also:>If you can keep your head when all about you > Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, >If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,> But make allowance for their doubting too; >If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,> Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,>Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,> And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:>If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; > If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; >If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster> And treat those two impostors just the same; >If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken> Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,>Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,> And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:>If you can make one heap of all your winnings> And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,>And lose, and start again at your beginnings> And never breathe a word about your loss;>If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew> To serve your turn long after they are gone, >And so hold on when there is nothing in you> Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, > Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,>If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,> If all men count with you, but none too much;>If you can fill the unforgiving minute> With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, >Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, > And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
>>24091862It's a layman's introduction to Jungian psychology in general, which gave me good mental health and gave me access to the meaning of life, which gave me good relationships and academic success
>>24090466kek
